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Radar absorbing materials used for target camouflage

I. NICOLAESCU1,*

Affiliation

  1. Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

As a result of the developments within signal processing, transmitters and receivers areas radar technology has improved steadily over the past 50 years gaining in the sensor sensitivity, miniaturisation, power consumption, etc which a low to build smaler, more reliable and user friendly radar sensors. The effectiveness of these radar sensors is sufficiently threatening to merit the reduction of radar signature of al battlefield equipment. The paper analyses the potential use of radar absorbing materials to reduce the scattered signal by different metalic parts of military equipment and facilities. The paper is focused on two types of materials whose properties are analysed. The authors emphasise the results they got by simulations using different optimisation programs and measured data. The novelty of the paper is given by the materials used for simulations as well as by the algorithms proposed for reflection coefficient optimisation that gets the parameters of the materials from a database made up of 24 types of materials previously characterised..

Keywords

Radar, Absorbing materials, Radar sensors, Target camouflage.

Submitted at: Dec. 7, 2005
Accepted at: Jan. 26, 2006

Citation

I. NICOLAESCU, Radar absorbing materials used for target camouflage, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 8, Iss. 1, pp. 333-338 (2006)